21mc051-TA-2008_Turin, Galleria Sabauda, G. Ferrari, San Giovanni Battista, inv. 1119

Facilitated description: 

 

St. John the Baptist is a painting on a wooden table. 
The painter Gaudenzio Ferrari painted the painting in the early 1500s.  
This painting and the painting "St. Peter and a Devotee" are part of a polyptych (composed of several paintings).
The paintings of the polyptych are now scattered in several museums.
The painting is kept at the Galleria Sabauda in Turin. 
The La Venaria Reale Conservation and Restoration Centre did a maintenance on the painting in 2008 for an exhibition. 
After the intervention, the painting was exhibited at an exhibition in Brussels. 
The restorers cleaned the painting and the frame from dust. 
They filled the wooden gaps of the frame with stucco (plaster and glue layer). 
They filled the missing gilding parts of the frame.

 

 

 

Abstract of the intervention: 

 

Maintenance 

The intervention on the painting of the Galleria Sabauda in Turin is part of the maintenance carried out in view of the exhibition De Van Dyck in Bellotto. Splendeurs à la cour de Savoie in Brussels (Palais des Beaux-Arts, 20 February - 24 May 2009).
The maintenance provided for the removal of dust deposits with a brush and vacuum cleaner. On the frame were carried out the cleaning, the filling of the gaps and the reintegration of the gilding. 

 

Bibliography

S. Baiocco, Sheet 2.8 in De Van Dyck in Bellotto. Splendeurs à la cour de Savoie, C. E. Spantigati, P. Astrua, A. M. Bava, S. Damiano, Torino, Allemandi, 2009, pp. 105-106.